- John A. Gamble
John Albert Gamble (born
November 24 ,1933 ) is afar-right Canadian politician. He was elected to theCanadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative in the 1979 federal election and re-elected in the 1980 election.He was a candidate at the 1983 Progressive Conservative leadership convention, but won only 17 votes. Gamble was known for his extreme
anti-communist views. He became so unpopular that he was one of only two Progressive ConservativeMembers of Parliament to lose their seat in the 1984 general election, which produced a Progressive Conservative landslide, the largest majority in the history of the Canadian House of Commons. (Bill Clarke ofVancouver Quadra was the other but he lost to Prime MinisterJohn Turner who needed a seat in the House.) Gamble was defeated by independent candidateTony Roman , who was supported by Liberals dissatisfied with their candidate and Tories who wanted to defeat Gamble.After failing to win a nomination as a Progressive Conservative candidate, Gamble ran as an independent in the 1988 election, winning less than five percent of the vote. On
May 31 ,1993 , Gamble won the Reform Party's nomination inDon Valley West for the 1993 federal election, but was expelled by the party prior to the election because of his links to far-right extremists such as Paul Fromm,Ron Gostick ,Wolfgang Droege and theHeritage Front .In the 1980s, Gamble was involved with the hard-right
World Anti-Communist League as head of its affiliate the "Canadian Freedom Foundation". According to a report by theSecurity Intelligence Review Committee , Paul Fromm assisted Gamble in this WACL work. [http://www.freedomsite.org/exposed/sirc/report/chapter07.html]External links
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